KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Debt
AT VALLEY FORGE in the winter of 1777-78, George Washington and his troops were in utterly desperate straits...
He appealed to the governor of Pennsylvania for help. Jacob DeHaven was a staunch believer in the revolutionary cause and lived near Valley Forge. Hearing of Washington's appeal, he loaned him $50,000 in gold and $400,000 in supplies. The army survived the winter, but after the war DeHaven was never repaid. Now his descendants are trying to collect. They claim that the loan, compounded at 6 percent interest daily, amounts to $141.6 billion.
In one sense, all the money in the world could never repay DeHaven for what he did. In reality, he saved the cause of freedom for all America.
THOUGHT: There's another debt all of us owe that we can never repay. It is the price Jesus Christ paid to give us liberty from the bondage of sin's guilt and judgment. He redeemed us with His precious blood so that we might have spiritual freedom (Vernon Grounds).
KneEmail: "Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot" (1 Pet. 1:18-19).